View styles

- [Voiceover] Welcome to this tips and tricksvideo on working with View styles,one of SharePoint 2013's mostoverlooked features in my opinion.If you're like me, and you grow wearyof the same old look for Views in SharePoint 2013,then this tip will definitely hit home.I wont be covering off all the options available,but we'll zero in on the those I feel are most notable.Let's start with how we go about configuring a View style,and then look at the different ones on the list.First, we're in a document library called Administration.

In order to access the Views for this library,I'd simply click on the Library tab,and from there I can either create a brand new View,or modify the existing View.I'm gonna go ahead and click on Modify View,so we can take a look at the differentView styles that are available.Now in order to actually configure the View style,we need to scroll down towardsthe end of this configuration panel,and there you'll see an option called Style.Now, it's a little bit hidden away because its collapsed.

If you go ahead and expand it openby clicking the little plus sign to the left of it,you'll see that it gives us a View style windowor box where there are several options listed.Let's start at the top, Basic Table.This one I typically call "good old faithful",it's the Standard Basic View, and its the onewe're all used to seeing displaying itemsin a very familiar row pattern.So for that one, I'm not gonna go ahead and apply it,because we've seen that one already.Let's go to the next one in the list, Document Details.

This View style takes all the document dataand lists it in a small box based on thecolumn order specified by the user.So, I'm gonna go ahead and select and click on Okay,so we can see what it looks like.You can see that it looks considerably differentand it follows a similar layout to business cards.This View is especially useful when you have a lot of dataand want to avoid having to scrollright and left to see all the columns.Let's take a look at another View style.We're going to return to Library, click on Modify View,and again I'll scroll down to theStyle section and expand it out.

Now after Document Details, you'll see there aretwo more that are fairly similar,Newsletter and Newsletter No Lines.Let's go ahead and look at the one called Newsletter.When this View finds a column with a Librarythat supports multiple lines of textlike your typical Description field,it will wrap it to a second rowmaking it much easier to read,rather than all cramped into a single thinner column.You'll also notice that it produces linesbetween each of the documents also making it easierto see which files are in the Library.

Okay, let's move on to another View style.I'm going to click on Library, Modify View,and I'll scroll back down to that section.Now I mentioned that the one wejust looked at was Newsletter.The one right after is the exact same thing,except it doesn't have the line dividers between the files.The next one is called Shaded.Again, I'll select it and click Okay.Now this view displays items in rowsof alternating shades without the lines between the rows.

This one also makes it easier to viewthe files in a Library and in my opinionadds a little bit of sophisticationto the look of the documents.I'll return to Library, click on Modify View,and we'll look at one more.Scroll back down. Click on Style.And the one that I want to bring attentionto now is this one here called Preview Pane.Now this style always creates some sort of buzzbecause it really turns Views upside downin terms of how they appear.

So I have it selected, I'll click Okay.And now you'll notice something that lookscompletely different from any other Style that we've seen.By hovering my mouse over a file name,you'll notice that all the details of that fileappear on the right side.This would be a great View to useif you were applying it to a Contacts list.I'm gonna return to Modifying the View,and we'll expand it out once more.And let me just mention as well,that the last option on the listis this one here called Default.

Now this is the Default View which has been setor configured as the default for that library.So this is the one that you typically seewhenever you click on a library name.As a closing point, please note thatthe View styles I just presentedare not all available for all Views.These View styles are available for Standard Views,and not necessarily Calendar or Gantt Views as an example.

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